Facilitation measures benefit HK, SZ

June 28, 2022

Chief Executive Carrie Lam today warmly welcomed the announcement of nine Hong Kong-related facilitation measures by the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Co-operation Zone in Shenzhen.

 

The measures, covering areas such as youth innovation and entrepreneurship, technology development, financial services, legal services and medical services, will support Hong Kong people and enterprises developing in Qianhai, and bring greater convenience to young people of Hong Kong and Macau seeking to build their career in Shenzhen, the Government said.

 

Mrs Lam supplemented: “As one of the major co-operation platforms in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Qianhai has positioned its development as the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Co-operation Zone with specific focuses on Hong Kong.”

 

Collaboration between Hong Kong and Shenzhen has yielded remarkable achievements in areas like innovation and technology, asset and wealth management, legal services and youth development, she noted.

 

Moreover, Hong Kong and Shenzhen have been proactively seizing the opportunities brought about by the Plan for Comprehensive Deepening Reform & Opening Up of the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Co-operation Zone promulgated by the central government last September. Under the planning concept of “twin cities, three circles” in the Northern Metropolis Development Strategy, Qianhai and the north-western part of Hong Kong will form the Shenzhen Bay Quality Development Circle.

 

Citing President Xi Jinping’s remarks that Shenzhen is entrusted with new historic missions to deepen the reform and opening up of the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Co-operation Zone as well as to forge ahead the development of the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Innovation & Technology Co-operation Zone in the Loop, the Chief Executive stressed: “I hope Hong Kong will make the best use of the advantages of ‘one country, two systems’, capitalise on our market-oriented and internationalised business environment that is underpinned by the rule of law, continue to promote high-level collaboration with Shenzhen in different areas and proactively serve as the dual engines in the bay area under the spirit of complementarity and mutual benefits, so as to contribute to the developments of the bay area and of the country.”

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